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@FannyMae: Ooo good luck!! Thinking of you!!

@FannyMae: Oh my goodness, sounds like you've been through the ringer! I'm so glad to hear you and your new daughter are doing well now. Congratulations!

Thanks ladies, I'm so relieved and grateful that she is here safely, now on to the next hurdle. Jaundice has just come up, blood test for her levels is done and waiting on results. She is barely eating at all, extremely sleepy. Once numbers are in we move on to treatment most likely lights and top ups

@FannyMae: Congratulations! I'm glad you're both doing okay after what sounds like a scary experience.

No baby here yet. Trying to be patient but failing. I'm scheduled for an induction on December 1 if s/he decides not to show by then.

@FannyMae: glad to hear you are doing ok now! I love her name my milk came in on day four and really helped my little guy's jaundice. We spent a lot of time tickling his feet to keep him awake while eating too

My labor and delivery story!

I was set to be induced on 11/23 (40+4) at 4:00 pm with cervadil. At about 6:00 am I lost my mucus plug (which btw looked essentially like I poured a container of honey in my underwear!). Soon after I started experiencing timeable contractions! So I sat at home with DW and the dogs until they were 5 minutes apart then we went to the hospital.

Once we were checked into a room I asked for the epidural to at least be requested in case it took awhile (ended up that it did because of some backup on lab work). While waiting my contractions got a lot worse quickly and suddenly during a terrible one my water broke in the hospital bed! It was absolutely crazy - a HUGE gush of hot water in the bed. And - it was green so I knew it had meconium We worried about that but the nurse said all it means was that she would call a NICU team to be present at the birth just in case.

To make a long story short, I got my epi and all was wonderful immediately. I had a perfect and very fortunate experience with it. I watched friends and drank juice for about 6 hours until it was time to push! I pushed for 15 minutes and the nurse told me to stop bc my OB was on his way and she didn't want the baby here before him!!

By this time it was about 11:30 pm. My doctor arrived and within two contractions the baby was out!! It was amazing. I got a second degree tear and two smaller tears but I didn't feel any pain. DW cut the cord and luckily, the baby had not inhaled any meconium.

Cooper was big - 8 lbs, 8 ounces, and 21 inches! With a head of dark hair we were not expecting! We've had a really good day and a half in the hospital and are looking forward to going home tomorrow!

We feel extremely fortunate for this kind of positive birth experience and for our sweet boy!

@wrkbrk: I'm up nursing too and was hoping you fad posted your birth story! Im so glad you had such a great experience! He is gorgeous!! And I wish mine would take a binky!

@peaches1038: PS we were going to wait on the paci for a few weeks but when he sqwaked the first nine hours of his life I decided to go ahead and try one He's never loved something more haha. The only problem is, it falls out of his mouth about 3 times an hour and we have to replace it

@bluestriped bee: Haha thank you! Hopefully not overly descriptive

@Hoots: Congratulations! She is gorgeous and her name is beautiful!

@Hoots: that's an awesome package!! I wish we had done something like that.

@FannyMae: I'm thinking it might be a sign that she's going to be a bit of a stubborn one and want to do things her own way. She already is that way about nursing. The lactation cosultant tried to correct her latch a bit and every time she did, DD would just quit nursing altogether.

@Hoots: so precious! Jealous of your delivery photographer!

@Finfan: @peaches1038: @Miss Sarah: @FannyMae: @wrkbrk: @AggieDaze: Thanks, ladies! We are so very excited to have her around, even if she is a bit of tyrant!